does anyone want to make a try on the lineage of the hw title

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  1. good right hand

    good right hand Well-Known Member Full Member

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    i was kinda curious,

    i only know spots but even those spots are kinda dubious,


    carnera
    baer
    bradock
    louis
    charles
    walcott
    marciano
    patterson
    johanson
    petterson
    liston
    clay (ali)
    frazier
    foreman
    ali
    spinks
    ali
    holmes
    spinks
    tyson
    douglas
    holyfield
    bowe
    holyfield
    bowe
    vacant ?
    moorer ?
    foreman?
    briggs ?
    vacant ?
    holyfield ?
    lewis ?
     
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    Peter Jackson claims the title first (May 30 1892) beating Frank Slavin in 10 t0 win the Police Gazzette Championship belt he loses to James J Jeffries

    Jeffries retires undefeated on May 13 1905

    Marvin Hart beats Jack Root in 12 on July 3rd 1905 to claim the Championship

    Hart loses to Tommy Burns in 1906

    Burns loses to Jack Johnson in 1908

    Johnson beats a comebacking Jeffries in 1910

    Jess Willard beats Jack Johnson in 1915

    Jack Dempsey beats Jess Willard in 1919

    Gene Tunney beats Dempsey in 1926

    Tunney retired in 1928

    Max Schmeling claims the title in 1930 with a 4 round dq win over Jack Sharkey

    1932: Sharkey beats Schmeling in a rematch

    1933: Primo Carnera beats Sharkey

    1934: Max Baer beats Carnera

    1935: James J Braddock beats Baer

    1937: Joe Louis beats Braddock

    1949: Louis retires for a short time, before a 1950 loss to Ezzard Charles

    1951: Charles loses to Jesey Joe Walcott

    1952: Walcott loses to Marciano
     
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    1956: Marciano retires; Floyd Patterson beats Archie Moore in five to win the vacant Championship

    1959: Patterson loses to Ingemar Johansson

    1960: Johansson loses to Patterson

    1962: Patterson loses to Sonny Liston

    1964: Liston loses to Cassius Clay, who changes his name to Muhammad Ali

    1970: Muhammad Ali announces his retirement; Joe Frazier beats Jimmy Ellis to win the vacant Championship

    1971: Frazier beats the comebacking Muhammad Ali

    1973: George Foreman beats Frazier

    1974: Ali beats Foreman

    1978: Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali, and then loses the rematch

    1979: Ali announces his retirement

    1980: Ali comesback and loses to Larry Holmes

    1985: Holmes loses to Michael Spinks

    1988: Spinks loses to Mike Tyson

    1990: Tyson loses to James Douglas, who loses to Evander Holyfield
     
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    1992: Holyfield loses to Riddick Bowe

    1993: Bowe loses a Holyfield rematch

    1994: Michael Moorer beats Holyfield, then loses to George Foreman

    1997: Foreman loses to Shannon Briggs

    1998: Briggs loses to Lennox Lewis

    2001: Hasim Rahman beats Lewis and then loses the rematch

    2004: Lewis announces his retirement